PNM urges Government to ban LTTE

COLOMBO: The Patriotic National Movement (PNM) in a letter to President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday urged the Government to proscribe the LTTE and withdraw from the unlawful Cease-fire Agreement to ensure the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

The letter signed by Movement's National Operational Council President Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekera demanded to remove the Nordic Peace Brokers, reject the biased proposals made by the academics of the All Party Political Committee which advocates division of Sri Lanka into pieces on ethnic basis and appoint two separate Governors for the distinct provinces of the Northern Province and the Eastern Province.

The letter enumerating the spate of LTTE aggressions in quick succession during the recent few days, in violation of the nominal Ceasefire Agreement said, the peace loving people in this country representing numerous ethnic groups will never tolerate the LTTE's sole aim of creating a separate state of "Eelam".

The letter urged the Government to launch a pragmatic programme before February 22 next year, determined to eradicate terrorism from the very root and defeat LTTE separatism for ever.